Polysiphonia brodiei (Dillwyn) Sprengel

Classification:
Empire Eukaryota
Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Rhodophyta
Subphylum Eurhodophytina
Class Florideophyceae
Subclass Rhodymeniophycidae
Order Ceramiales
Family Rhodomelaceae
Tribe Polysiphonieae
Genus Polysiphonia

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microscope, North of Portugal, Vilachá, 2006. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope, TS frond showing central axial cell, 8 pericentrals, and cortication; Spain, Galicia, Ría de Betanzos, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope, Spain, Galicia, Ría de Betanzos, 2007. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope, Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, Lorbé; tetrasporangial stichidia. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

microscope, Spain, Galicia, A Coruña, Lorbé. Ignacio Bárbara. © Ignacio Bárbara (barbara@udc.es).

Kilkee, Co. Clare, Ireland; mid-shore rock pools. 25 Mar 2005. Michael Guiry. © Michael Guiry (mike.guiry@nuigalway.ie).

Polysiphonia brodiei (Dillwyn) Sprengel Kilkee, Co. Clare, Ireland; mid-shore rock pools

Publication details
Polysiphonia brodiei (Dillwyn) Sprengel 1827: 349 ('brodiaei')

Original publication: Sprengel, K.[P.J.] (1827). Systema vegetabilium Editio decima sexta. Voluminis IV. Pars I. Classis 24. Vol. 4 pp. [i]-iv, [1]-592. Gottingae [Göttingen]: sumtibus Librariae Dieterichianae.
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Type species
The type species (holotype) of the genus Polysiphonia is Polysiphonia urceolata (Lightfoot ex Dillwyn) Greville.

Status of name
This name is of an entity that is currently accepted taxonomically.

Basionym
Conferva brodiei Dillwyn

Type information
Lectotype locality: Bantry Bay, (Co. Cork,) Ireland (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 537). Lectotype: Miss Ellen Hutchins; 24.vi.1807; BM-K (Maggs & Hommersand 1993: 314). Notes: This type locality was first recorded by Womersley (1979: 497).

Eponomy
Named for James Brodie, Scottish Naturalist; generally misspelled “brodiaei”.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Conferva brodiei Dillwyn 1809
Ceramium brodiei (Dillwyn) C.Agardh 1811
Hutchinsia brodiei (Dillwyn) Lyngbye 1819
Vertebrata brodiei (Dillwyn) Kuntze 1891

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Polysiphonia penicillata (C.Agardh) Sprengel 1827
Hutchinsia penicillata C.Agardh 1828
Polysiphonia brodiei f. densa Holmes & Batters 1890
Polysiphonia brodiei f. typica Holmes & Batters 1890

General environment
This is a marine species.

Common names

(as Polysiphonia brodiei (Dillwyn) Sprengel)
English: Brodie's Siphon Weed (Bunker et al. 2010).

Description
Cartilaginous, cylindrical, tufted, dark purple-red fronds, to 300 mm long, from small conical basal disc. Branches irregular to pseudodichotomous, densely clothed with short, slender, much-divided branchlets, forming the distinct tufts characteristic of this species. Central siphon of main axes with 6-8 primary pericentral siphons and as many alternating secondary pericentral siphons, surrounded by small corticating cells. Branchlets ecorticate, with fewer pericentral siphons, articulations about as long as broad.

Habitat
On rocks, stones, shells and corallines, mid-intertidal pools to subtidal, especially on exposed shores, generally distributed, common. According to Womersley (2003: 205), this species is usually found in or near harbour areas and may be spreading.

Detailed distribution with sources
(as Conferva brodiei Dillwyn)
Europe: Ireland (Dillwyn 1809).

(as Polysiphonia brodiei (Dillwyn) Sprengel)
Ireland: Antrim (Dickie 1871, Guiry 1978, Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Morton 1994), Clare (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979), Cork (Guiry 1978, Maggs & Hommersand 1993), Derry (Morton 1994), Donegal (Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Morton 2003), Down (Guiry 1978, Morton 1994), Dublin (Sanders 1860, Guiry 1978), Galway (Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978), Kerry (Guiry 1978), Mayo (Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913, Guiry 1978), Waterford (Guiry 1977, Guiry 1978), Wexford (Parkes & Scannell 1969, Norton 1970, Guiry 1978).

Europe: Adriatic (Giaccone 1978, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Baltic Sea (Nielsen et al. 1995), Black Sea (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Britain (Newton 1931, Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Hardy & Guiry 2003), Bulgaria (Dimitrova-Konaklieva 1981), Faroe Islands (Irvine 1982, Nielsen & Gunnarsson 2001), France (Feldmann 1943, Feldmann 1954, Ben Maiz, Boudouresque, Lauret & Riouall 1988, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Verlaque 2001, Dizerbo & Herpe 2007, Loiseaux-de Goër & Noailles 2008), Greece (Gerloff & Geissler 1974, Athanasiadis 1987, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Ireland (Cotton 1912, Cotton 1913, Guiry 1977, Pybus 1977, Guiry 1978, De Valéra et al. 1979, Maggs & Hommersand 1993, Morton 1994, Guiry 2012), Isla de Alborán (Conde & Flores Moya 2000), Italy (Giaccone 1969, Furnari, Cormaci & Serio 1999, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001), Netherlands (Stegenga & Mol 1983), Norway (Rueness 1997), Portugal (Ardré 1970, Araújo et al., 2003, Araujo et al. 2009, Bárbara et al. 2012, Araújo, Bárbara & Sousa-Pinto in press), Romania (Caraus 2002, Caraus 2012), Scandinavia (Athanasiadis 1996), Spain (Miranda 1931, Ballesteros & Romero 1982, Gallardo & Pérez-Cirera 1982, Gallardo et al. 1985, Silva & Fernández 1988, Granja, Cremades & Barbara 1992, Guillermes, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1994, Bárbara, Cremades & Pérez-Cirera 1995, Conde, Altamirano & Flores-Moya 1996, Bárbara & Cremades 1996, Conde et al. 1996, Cremades, Bárbara, Granja & Veiga 1997, Veiga, Cremades & Bárbara 1998, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Peña & Bárbara 2002, Valenzuela Miranda 2002, Gorostiaga et al., 2004, Bárbara et al. 2005, Diaz-Tapia & Bárbara 2005, Peña & Bárbara 2008, Cires Rodriguez & Cuesta Moliner 2010, Diaz Tapia et al. 2011), Sweden (Kylin 1907, Kylin 1944), Turkey (Europe) (Cirik, Zeybeck, Aysel & Cirik 1990, Gómez Garreta et al. 2001, Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Atlantic Islands: Azores (Neto 1994, Tittley & Neto 1994), Canary Islands (Viera-Rodriguez et al. 1987, Lawson et al. 1995, Haroun et al. 2002, Gil-Rodríguez et al. 2003, John et al. 2004, Anon 2011), Cape Verde Islands (Prud'homme van Reine, Haroun & Kostermans 2005), Madeira (Levring 1974, Neto, Cravo & Haroun 2001, John et al. 2004), Salvage Islands (Parente et al. 2000, John et al. 2004).

North America: Alaska (Scagel et al. 1989), British Columbia (Scagel et al. 1989), California (Abbott & Hollenberg 1976, Silva 1979, Scagel et al. 1989, Stewart 1991, Miller 2012), Washington (Scagel et al. 1989).

South America: Argentina (Boraso & Zaixso 2011).

Africa: Morocco (Gómez Garreta et al. 2001).

South-west Asia: India (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996, Sahoo et al. 2001), Iran (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Kuwait (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Qatar (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Saudi Arabia (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996), Turkey (Asia) (Taskin et al. 2008 ).

Asia: Japan (Yoshida, Nakajima & Nakata 1990), Korea (Lee & Kang 2001, Nam & Kang 2012).

Australia and New Zealand: New Zealand (Adams 1994, Nelson 1999 , Nelson 2012), South Australia (Womersley 2003), Tasmania (Womersley 2003), Victoria (Womersley 2003).

(as Polysiphonia brodiei f. densa Holmes & Batters)
Europe: Britain (Newton 1931).

Nomenclatural notes
Originally and generally misspelled as “brodiaei”; see Silva, Basson & Moe (1996: 537). Although Hollenberg (1944: 477) gave Scotland as the type locality, the figures (Dillwyn 1809, pl. 107) accompanying the original description are based on material collected by Miss Ellen Hutchins at Bantry Bay, Co. Cork, Ireland (see Womersley, 1979: 497). See Silva, Basson & Moe (1996) regarding orthography of the specific epithet (Guiry, 1997).

Key references
Loiseaux-de Goër, S. & Noailles, M.-C. (2008). Algues de Roscoff. pp. [1]-215, col. figs. Roscoff: Editions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.

Maggs, C.A. & Hommersand, M.H. (1993). Seaweeds of the British Isles. Volume 1. Rhodophyta. Part 3A. Ceramiales. pp. [i]-xv, 1-444, 129 figs, map. London: HMSO.

Nam, K.W. & Kang, P.J. (2012). Algal flora of Korea. Volume 4, Number 4. Rhodophyta: Ceramiales: Rhodomelaceae: 18 genera including Herposiphonia. pp. [1-6], 1-178, figs 1-102. Incheon: National Institute of Biological Resources.

Smith, G.M. (1944). Marine algae of the Monterey Peninsula. pp. i-ix, 1-622, 98 pls. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Womersley, H.B.S. (2003). The marine benthic flora of southern Australia - Part IIID Ceramiales - Delesseriaceae, Sarcomeniaceae, Rhodomelaceae. pp. 533. Canberra & Adelaide: Australian Biological Resources Study & State Herbarium of South Australia.

SAG Cultures
SAG Cultures may be viewed at http://sagdb.uni-goettingen.de/showstrains.php?genus=Polysiphonia&species=brodiei

SCCAP Cultures
Cultures from the Scandinavian Culture Collection of Algae at the University of Copenhagen (SCCAP) and Protozoa may be viewed at http://www.sccap.dk/search/algaebase.asp?Genus=Polysiphonia&Species=brodiei

NCBI Nucleotide Sequences

Created: 31 March 1996 by M.D. Guiry

Verified by: 08 October 2012 by M.D. Guiry

Accesses: This record has been accessed by users 2929 times since it was created.

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M.D. Guiry in Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. 2013. AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. http://www.algaebase.org; searched on 26 May 2013.

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